Re: [Staffslug] Boot disc's
On 06/04/07, Dick Turpin <highwayman.turpin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All
We all see regular posts regarding Boot CD's, floppies etc and most of
us know about UBR (Ultimate boot disc) Hiren's boot cd and of course
your own distro's rescue/repair discs.
Something very strange happened to my SUSE box grub became stuffed for
some reason error 17 anyway as usual I firked around and made things
worse and spent most of the day trying SUSE repair and all the above
disc's plus some others I have.
The thing was I knew the installation was OK all I needed to do was
get it to boot I had fixed the MBR as far as good old Windows is
concerned but could not get the openSUSE working anyway after some
googeling I came across Super Grub Disk
http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/
Go to the download section and get the EN floppy its a bit long winded
but hey presto openSUSE works so I now need to figure out how to
restore grub to the MBR as my openSUSE 10.2 DVD might be faulty as it
kept failing on the repair feature.
So download it now and add it to your "Oh my god what have I done?" tool kit
:-)
What the????? Is it error 17 season or something? That's what I was
getting with the other motherboard. It turns out it was the BIOS with
mine. I had got around it before by messing with the hard drive mode.
I can't remember if it needed to be 'LBA' or 'normal' but I think I
had to enable LBA (logical block addressing). Well, this last time,
for some reason it didn't work so instead of wasting even more time I
just swapped the motherboard out for a different one.
Then I thought about running Memtest on the memory I had installed.
Great :-( 512mb of RAM stuffed. Only 250mb out of the original lot
was any good. However, strangely, it will work with XP??? But then I
have mentioned my long held theory that Windows crashes so much due to
shite RAM...there's more (bad RAM) out there than you'd think.
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